Shakespeare's words of the future: promising Richard III.

Presents the essay "Shakespeare's Words of the Future: Promising Richard III," by Mark Robson; Proposition that a reading of Shakespeare's "Richard III" offers a way into the debates around anachrony as they are primarily configured in early modern studies; Reading that will sketch the analysis that the play stages of promising; Reading that emphasize frequently overlooked aspects of the play; Remobilization of the critical or intellectual reception of promising; Kind of future that the promise gives access to; Suggestion on what might the promise tell us about our relationship to the past.